The Mountain Can Wait

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What to expect

Tom Berry is a hunter, a man who would be most content living out his days in the wilderness with just enough ammunition and kerosene to last the winter. A single father, he has raised his children with care and quiet determination, but when his son Curtis gets into trouble with the law and goes on the run, Tom discovers that might not have been enough.

(P)2015 Hachette Audio

Critics Review

  • The heart of this story is the love between father and son, and the backdrop is spectacular; Leipciger’s descriptions of the scenery are splendid and intensely evocative

    The Times
  • A deft and beautiful novel about all that is untameable and wild, in both the landscape and in ourselves

    Maggie O'Farrell, author of INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE
  • A tragedy about a silent father and a wounded son… rigorous beauty

    New York Times
  • The Mountain Can Wait is as haunting, wild and compelling as the landscape it describes

    Claire Cameron, author of The Bear
  • Haunting and beautiful

    Huffington Post
  • Leipciger beautifully captures the tender and mercurial relationship between father and son. These are characters you care about, flawed and haunted, existing in the hard yet undeniably radiant world of the Canadian mountains

    Michele Forbes, author of GHOST MOTH

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